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Discussion point: Uni is not the only way to be educated about something. In fact, I have found industry experience to be more effective learning

• dusted 7y ago
  You didn't read the article did you? This is not about experience, it's about getting old enough that you've got lapses in attention no longer are fully aware of what you're doing. It's about being good at A, but times change, and since you're good at A, you're assumed to be good at B too, but you are not. It's about systems evolving around highly esteemed people, that make detecting life-threatening situations hard or impossible.
  • aetherspawn 7y ago
    A large portion of the article mentions specifically that students who graduate uni more recently are educated in more modern surgical techniques .. but the premise assumes the surgeon basically doesn’t learn on the job which I’m not sure is a strong argument
  • gdy 7y ago
    "You didn't read the article did you?" Firstly, don't be an ass. Secondly, the article mentioned many factors, including specifically "quantity of education, remoteness of education", which are arguably are not an issue if an old dog keeps learning new tricks. "When contemplating the effect of age on surgeons, quantity of education, remoteness of education, and obsolescence of the content of the education are all at least theoretical concerns."
  • dang 7y ago
    "Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html